The story of the Lakeside Country Club in Frimley Green, Surrey — the pub venue that became a cathedral of British sport for 34 years.
One is a Surrey cabaret room that holds 1,170 people and smells faintly of cigarette smoke and chip fat. The other is a Victorian north London landmark with a turbulent history and a capacity that dwarfs anything the BDO ever managed. Both hosted a World Darts Championship. That's where the similarities end.
Bob Potter turned a Surrey country club into the spiritual home of world darts. Here's who he was, what he built, and why losing Lakeside still stings.
Frimley Green was not a glamorous postcode. That was precisely the point. Graham Priestley looks at the history, the atmosphere, and the man behind the venue that defined British darts for over three decades.